Case Study

Case Study: UVa Library

Project: Blacklight DL: A search engine for a digital library with thousands of titles.

Background: The University of Virginia's Digital Library's old search engine crashed when a query resulted in too many hits. They wanted to convert the search engine to one running on an open source platform. However, UVa Technical staff did not have the necessary resources available to develop or implement this new solution. Given the severity and regularity of the system crashes, a solution was required immediately.